Open up batch files via Web Page

[Lim, Poh Kim]

Hi all,
I wish to provide more information about our batch files. We copied our
newpapers CDROM contents into our server and mapped them to different
drives. Then use batch files to access them. This is how one of our batch
files look like:

@echo off
Z:
CD\PROQUEST
PART2

We originally created icons on the public terminals to access these files
and they work fine. But now we want to re-organize our resources and provide
access via the Web instead. The links we put on our Web are almost the same
as the ones we put on our wallpaper, for example:       
on the wall paper a link to New York Times is   c:/batch/nyt.bat 
on our Web Page is         file://c:/batch/nyt.bat 

The difference is when we click on the icons on the wall paper, they
automatically open up to full screen, but the Web links won't do that. It
seems each time we click any of the Web links it create a temporary file.

Does anybody knows how to fix this?

Thanks.



-----Original Message-----
From: Lim, Poh Kim
To: 'web4lib at webjunction.org. '
Sent: 12/11/00 6:26 PM
Subject: Open up batch files via Web Page

Hi all,

We are trying to put links to our Library page for students to access to
CDROM batch files (see
http://www.smccd.net/accounts/skylib/newslinks.html under "Back-Issues
of Newspapers:"). Our problem is when users click on the links (for
example: file://c:/batch/nyt.bat), they don't open up to full screen. We
tried to change the properties of the batch files, but that doesn't
help. I think because each time someone clicks on the link, it creates a
new temporary file that specifies screen size to "Window" but not "Full
Screen". 

We appreciate any suggestion to fix this problem.
 

Kim Lim 
Skyline College Library